The stage works of Philip Glass /
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Author / Creator: | Waters, Robert (Robert Francis), author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022 |
Description: | xix, 257 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | [Composers on the stage] Composers on the stage. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12776002 |
Summary: | The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine Glass's stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly acclaimed as the most popular living classical composer, created stage works that have had a mesmerizing effect on younger generations. Robert Waters analyses Glass and his music for the theatre in the context of other composers interested in so-called minimalist features. His discussion includes three introductory chapters that address the validity versus invalidity of terms such as minimalism, post-minimalism, postmodernism, and neo-Romanticism, together with a brief overview of Glass's life and works. Waters examines the different types of theatre responsible for Glass's impact, including Robert Wilson's Theater of Images. He sheds light on Glass's philosophy regarding staging, text, and other theatrical components, which includes a defiance of conventional narrative, visual and aural dissociation as a theatrical technique, and deconstructionist concepts. |
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Physical Description: | xix, 257 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781107049758 110704975X 9781107279148 9781009302692 |